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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
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Best Quotes about Philosophers and philosophy

1.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Donne, John

3.
Philosophy is doubt.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Carnegie, Dale

5.
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Stevens, Wallace

6.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Brookner, Anita

7.
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
Brooks, Mel

8.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
Berkeley, George

9.
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Leary, Timothy

10.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Reade, W. Winwood

12.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Whitehead, Alfred North

13.
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
Hegel, Georg

14.
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
Rorty, Richard

15.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
Burroughs, John

17.
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

19.
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
Yeats, William Butler

20.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
Roux, Joseph

21.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

22.
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Lippmann, Walter

23.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Cicero, Marcus T.

24.
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Stein, Gertrude

25.
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

26.
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Gauguin, Paul

27.
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Twain, Mark

28.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Cicero, Marcus T.

29.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Marx, Karl

30.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren

31.
Philosophers are only men in armor after all.
Dickens, Charles

32.
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

33.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
Goldsmith, Oliver

34.
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire

35.
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle -- the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
Popper, Karl

36.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Pascal, Blaise

37.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Pascal, Blaise

38.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Camus, Albert

40.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
James, William

42.
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano De

43.
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
Jefferson, Thomas

44.
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Rohn, Jim

47.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

48.
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
Zend, Robert

49.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Miller, Henry

50.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig


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